The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-12-03
MONTANA NEWS.

is reported to have been lately discoyere
in the vicinity of Flathead lake.
| The fine hotel at Heron, owned by tn
: Northern Pacific dining car department
was consumed by fire on Monday. Los
100000.
e Sullivan's boarding house, Hlbernia hal
t and three other buildings at Walkerville
were burned Thursday morning. Los
about SIC, 1000; insured for $4,000.
A fire in Butte Monday night destroyed
a large grain warehouse, and grocery store
belonging to the firm of W. Raymond
Co., causing loss of about $50, 900. The
property was insured for $500.
j At Butte last week Andrew Sands and
young lady were returning from fune
raj when they very narrowly escaped {
most violent desth. AS they were driving
across the railway track the engine of a
freight train struck their rig, killing the
horse and smashing the front part of the
buggy to splinters.
Leroy, one of the escaped convicts
from the Laramie county (Wyoming) Jail,
was recently captured in a tie camp of
the Cooke City & Rocky Fork railway in
Montana, and taken back to Chevenne.
Mccoy, the murderer, who travelled with
LeRoy part of the time, is making for
the British Possessions.
Independent: Governor Leslie yester-
day issued a proclamation offering a re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and convic-
ton of anyone permitting the dissemina-
ton of scab among sheep; also similar
amount for the detection of the party who
maliclously set fire to the hay stacks ON
Clark Bros ranch in Choteau county.
Ceur d'Alene Sun: A petition has
been circulated in Canyon Creek for an
neXatlOn to Montana. It has received
about 14O names. The entire sentiment
is in favor of the segregation from the
Mormon cursed territory of Idaho. While
the petitioners object to going to Wash
ton they are heartily in favor of uniting
their fortunes with Montana.
Helena Herald: Territorial Auditor
Sullivan yesterday footed up the territorial
money paid out under the old bounty
laws since the first day Of January of this
year until the law was repealed. The
total amount paid since that day is $780,.
160.I0. 1t went for 7O9,942 squirrel
skins, 1921 prairie dogs, 2,567 coyotes,
1851 wolves, 294 bears and 1914 lions.
The territorial teachers institute con-
yenes at Helena on the 9th, 28th and
Goth inst. The session will be devoted to
the reading of papers, delivering lectures
on educational topics, the discussion of the
same by the body of teachers, and adj
dresses by men and women prominent in
the educational field. The proceedings
will he conducted in the high school
building, and will be open to the public.
Tuesday morning an Anaconda ore train
on the Montana Union became uncoupled |
and had to stop. A following passenger
train was signalled and stopped. A fol-
lowing freight train was signalled, but be-
fore it could be stopped crashed into the
passenger train, the engine going half way
through the rear car. Still another freight
train followed and was signalled but not
stopped until the engine telescoped the
caboose of the first freight. The passen-
gers of the coach succeeded in getting
out before the first collision and no one on
any of the trains was fatally injured.
E. X. Norris, an old resident of Butte,
was found lying dead in one of the streets
of that city last Saturday morning. He
was somewhat gwen to dissi patton, though
the direct cause of his death was probably
consumption with which he had been af-
fected for years. He had been employed |
for the past three years in the Comique,
and left legacy which bids fair to stir
Butte from centre to circumference, says
the Inter Mountain. It is neither more
or less than minute record of his daily |
life, detailing the name of every man who
visited the Comique, the company he was
in, the number of bottles he bought, how
long he stayed and how full he was when
he went home. 1t is truly wonderful
document and full of wierd interest to |
those who do not know where the Com
iuue is. Norris was Jim Dandy and
left probably the most important posthu-
nous document of any man OF modern
times. 1t is believed he was slightly alb
errated, but his eyes were clearer than his
head, and he had an unhappy faculty eff
jotting down everything that he saw.
Had he lived longer he could have dispos
ed of his diary to the parties chiefly in
terested in,its suppression for about two
thirds Of their earthly possessions.
Murderer Hart Sentenced.
Judge Mcconnell passed the following
sentence on John Hart, convicted of muir